Ryan touted his running mate, Mitt Romney, for his work in organizing the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, saying the Massachusetts Republican had cleaned up the corruption and unchecked spending in the organization.

He blasted Obama for the way he talks about Americans who are less fortunate or lack the job skills to get ahead.

"The president speaks to people like they're stuck in a station in life, a victim of circumstances," Ryan said, listing some of the jobs he held while attending Miami. "It never occurred to me I was stuck in some situation. I was on my path."

Ryan said Ohio's natural energy reserves should be tapped to produce jobs, and he said government spending should be reduced.

"We can't just keep spending money we don't have," he said. "We have to cut spending; have to get (the) deficit under control."

When asked about the apparent stumble the Romney campaign made in condemning the State Department's response to the killing of an American ambassador in Libya, Ryan said, "We just don't think we should make statements that seem to be apologizing for the people who are storming the barricades at our embassy."

Ryan was keen to focus on the economy and specifically, successes made by Republican governors such as John Kasich.

"In Ohio, things are improving. In May, other than California, more jobs were created here than any other state. So why would Ohioans need change? Well, I think Ohioans have done well because of great leadership from people like John Kasich," Ryan said. "Imagine how much better we could do if we actually got the mess in Washington fixed. See, the problem is Ohio can't have a full recovery until the federal government cleans its act up."

During his talk with Dardis, Ryan also touched on how his speech at the Republican National Convention was celebrated by some and picked apart by others.

In the speech, Ryan had made some claims about the president's health care reform law that were criticized by independent fact checkers.

Specifically, he accused Obama of funneling money away from Medicare at the expense of the elderly. According to reports, Medicare's chief actuary said the law substantially improves the system's finances.

In response, Ryan said, "If you actually look at the appendix of that very actuary, if you look at the testimony -- he came to Congress (and) he said, 'You can't spend the same dollar twice.' You can't claim that the $716 billion of cuts to Medicare also go to Obamacare and help Medicare. They can only go to one place."